Bug 189575 - "Reply to All" converts all To: recipients to CC: ones
Summary: "Reply to All" converts all To: recipients to CC: ones
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.11.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2009-04-13 23:36 UTC by Peter Popov
Modified: 2012-08-18 23:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Peter Popov 2009-04-13 23:36:20 UTC
Version:           1.11.2 (using 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.28-11-generic

When replying to all, KMail only keeps the "From:" (or "Reply To:" if one is present) recipient in the To: field and demotes everyone else to CC: status. This is very inconvenient and especially embarrassing in a corporate environment. No other email client I've seen in the past 15 years or so does this, from Eudora on the old System 7 back in highschool to my cell phone. This behavior is definitely intentional, I remember finding it in source code a few months back but couldn't fix it, but being completely counter-intuitive and counter-productive, especially in the corporate world, is more of a bug than a feature.

Please at least make this configurable.
Comment 1 David Lee 2010-04-19 08:06:33 UTC
What would be the correct behavior?
Comment 2 Peter Popov 2010-04-19 10:42:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> What would be the correct behavior?

To: and CC: recipients should retain their status. In other words:

Copy the original list of To: recipients to the To: list
Remove this account's email address from the To: list
If Reply-To is present, add it to the To: list; else if Sender: is present, add that; else add From:
Copy the original CC: list to the CC: list

The distinction between To: and CC: is very important with high volume corporate mail. It makes the difference between messages one MUST read and that those one just needs to be in the loop of. Put another way, the difference between having to read 500 extra emails every day or missing an important email from your manager. Either way, not a good thing.
Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:24:21 UTC
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 4 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-18 23:51:16 UTC
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2